Introducing Poche

Introducing Poche

Poche is officially out of beta. Anyone can sign up and create a team today. To get the full experience, connect your Slack workspace. If you’re not ready yet, you can still browse great content on the Explore page.

We built Poche because valuable links disappear in the flood of Slack messages. Poche lives in your channels, automatically extracts links as you share them, and sends them to your team’s library. AI then tags and categorizes everything, and full-text fuzzy search makes it effortless to find what you need later, by keyword, by topic, or by the slightest hint you remember.

Rich previews matter when you’re collecting inspiration. Thanks to Slack’s Unfurl API, Poche reconstructs X posts with high fidelity where the public X API falls short, and video content gets proper embeds so you can play inline. Our team uses it to gather beautifully designed motion and interaction work without juggling tabs.

To keep you informed without adding noise, Mission Briefing summarizes recent links so a quick glance surfaces what matters. And because we designed Poche for social bookmarking from day one, the Explore page lets selected teams share their best links with the community, while optional anonymization keeps teams private when they prefer.

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Buffet, 7 Million and 2 Years Later

The date was September 5th, 2023. I remember telling three of our clients at the time that I wanted to try out a new model. It was like Netflix: you pay a fixed fee each month, and we deliver unlimited designs. The only safeguard I could think of to protect us from getting overwhelmed was to limit the number of concurrent requests.

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Relaunching HEM

Relaunching HEM

Four years ago, we helped launch HEM Records. Since then, with four graduating classes from HEM Education, 127 producers have published 392 releases under the label. That is not only a milestone for us as a label but also an important moment for the Chinese electronic music scene.

Over time, HEM’s website collected a lot of technical baggage. We decided to start fresh by rebuilding it from the ground up with the latest technology and infrastructure. We have made strong progress, and we are excited for you to experience it.

If you are a long-time visitor, you will notice the difference immediately. The rough edges are gone. The design is simpler, cleaner, and focused on one goal: showcasing our artists’ work. The site is fast, so fast that fifty album covers load instantly. With one click, you can preview tracks as if you were flipping through records in a store. We have also rethought performance from top to bottom, replacing outdated features with modern, responsive, and polished interactions.

We have also made important content updates. The new site is built with best practice SEO in mind, including sitemaps, hreflang, and structured data, all designed to help our artists reach a wider audience. Fan favorites like video content are now part of the site as well. You can stream every HEM original series directly on the website.

This relaunch is more than just a facelift. It is a faster, smarter, and more artist-focused HEM. And this is only the beginning.

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Mise en place

Mise en place

We’ve been using the same project management tools as everyone else for years, and honestly? They’re kind of annoying. You know the drill: paying per seat as your team grows, wrestling with features that almost do what you need, and constantly adapting your workflow to fit someone else’s idea of how teams should work.

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Tools We Made as a Design Team

A few years ago we wrote Tools We Use In 2020 to share some of the tools we use to make our work, long before remote work became a global phenomenon. We even made a full blown page called Remote dedicated to the tools we use.

Looking back that was remote work at its infancy. Now with the power of accessible AI, everyone, I mean literally everyone is building tools to help them work better. So today I’m glad to share some of the tools we made as a design team.

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New Work — BA Capital

New Work — BA Capital

We’re thrilled to unveil our latest rebrand and website launch for BA Capital. We built the brand from the ground up, transforming a simple idea into an infinitely scalable, flexible brand system. The website received a complete overhaul, replacing the legacy site with a lightning-fast experience powered by cutting-edge technology.

BA Capital is a private equity investment firm founded in 2016 that specializes in the consumer industry. Notable portfolio companies include Pop Mart (9992.HK), Luk Fook Gold (6181.HK), Giant Biogene (2367.HK), Helen’s (9869.HK), Miniso Group, HeyTea, Genki Forest, and UR.

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Year of the Snake

Year of the Snake

As we step into the Year of the Snake, our newest wallpaper series brings elegance and symbolism to your screen. Representing renewal and intuition, the snake reminds us to embrace change, move with purpose, and continuously refine our craft.

Wishing you a joyful New Year—thank you for being part of our journey!

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New OneKey Website

New OneKey Website

We recently redesigned OneKey’s website with a clean, modern look that emphasizes the product and serves as a portal for visitors to learn more about the company and its products. With this overhaul, we also updated the visual materials to reflect the new look and feel with a touch of warmth.

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Introducing Moodr

Introducing Moodr

Started as a joke, Moodr is now a real thing.

Making design decisions is hard. Making design decisions with clients is even harder. We imagined a tool where clients could browse moodboards and give feedback, just like they do on dating apps. That’s Moodr, moodboard meets Tinder. We iterated on the idea for a few days, using AI, thanks to v0 and Cursor. It’s a simple tool, but it’s a lot of fun.

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We’re on Xiaohongshu

We’re on Xiaohongshu

We’re now on Xiaohongshu! If you enjoy behind-the-scenes case studies and sneak peeks at our work in progress, be sure to follow us. This is just one step in our plan to enhance our social presence, and you can also stay connected with us on our other channels.

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